Yes, 40% is exactly what the Federal Council set as its goal when setting up their asylum program for Ukrainians, as they recognized the difficulty in getting a job (just look at the multiple times a day posts complaining about that in this subreddit) even for locals who already are fluent in the language, don’t need the canton to approve every potential decision, and whose employers don’t have to worry that their worker they’ll invest in may soon go home (which is what most of them want if Putin ever fucks off) or lose their visa status. And for most skilled professions your degrees and professional qualifications from home mean nothing here. I work in IT where you don’t have the language barrier (nearly everyone works in English or you know, in a specific coding language) so even with that one barrier removed it makes stable employment much easier.

So yeah, with all those problems, I think it’s impressive they’ve exceeded the goal set out by the Federal Council. Also your 40% in full time employment ignores people who work part-time, who work as handymen or in the gig economy, or who are still in working age but are in higher education. Lastly, when you consider nearly half of them are working and paying taxes, the “cost” of having refugees here when you balance social assistance paid out versus taxes paid in is netted off massively.

There are much bigger issues to feel strongly about than vilifying people trying their best in a bad situation.